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Colorado mayor urges more baths after water overload from Y2K preps

January 7, 2000, Web posted at: 2:32 p.m. EST (1932 GMT)

GOLDEN, Colorado (AP) -- It's not something you hear often in the arid West: Use more water.

"We want people to bathe a lot -- two to three baths a day," joked City Manager Mike Bestor.

Like other towns across the country, Golden filled its water storage tanks on New Year's Eve as a precaution against a multi-day power outage. Such an outage would have left the city without electricity to operate pumps that pour water into the tanks.

But Golden pushed bravely on into 2000 without incident. And now, the city has about 2 million more gallons of water on hand than normal.

If the additional water does not get used, it will lose a required trace amount of chlorine that prevents bacteria contamination, said Dan Hartman, Golden's public works director.

He expects the level to return to normal by Saturday.

"As long as people really try to stay clean, we'll be fine," Hartman said.

Meanwhile in nearby Denver, the city's airport is selling flashlights it had ordered for passengers in case of New Year's Eve power outages.

-- clean (1X@day.winter), January 09, 2000.